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MONROE, Maine (AP) — Maine now has more artisan cheese makers than any state except New York, according to a cheese expert who tracks artisan cheese making nationwide.
When Jeff Roberts wrote his book, "The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese," in 2006, he identified 25 cheese makers in Maine who produce cheese by hand using traditional techniques. There are now about 75 of them, he said, making Maine the fastest-growing artisan cheese-producing state.
"To me, that's a truly remarkable expansion in a relatively short period of time," said Roberts, who lives in Montpelier, Vt., and is a consultant to the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at the University of Vermont. "And most of us outside of Maine have never heard of Maine artisan cheese because it really doesn't leave the state."
People will be able to visit some of those cheese makers on Sunday during the Maine Cheese Guild's annual Open Creamery Day. They can talk with the cheese makers in their creameries, meet their animals and learn the stories behind the 150 artisanal cheeses that are made in Maine.
In all, a dozen or more cheese makers are participating, with offerings ranging from chevre, cheddar, gouda and fromage blanc to marinated, goat and organic varieties. Artisan cheeses are known for complex tastes and varieties.
Although the number of cheese makers has shot up, the volume of cheese made in Maine is still small, said Eric Rector, owner of the Monroe Cheese Studio in Monroe and president of the Maine Cheese Guild.
Most of the cheese makers sell their products locally at places like farmers markets, he said. Still, the state's largest producer, Pineland Farms, distributes nationally.
In all, Maine cheese makers produce an estimated 1 million or so pounds a year, Rector said.
"Many plants outside of Maine make 1 million pounds a month," he said.
Roberts said as of this year, there were 85 artisan cheese makers in New York, about 75 in Maine and more than 70 in Pennsylvania. Nationally, the number has grown from about 400 in 2006 to about 825.


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The Iowa Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting Thursday, March 7,to discuss the proposed planning study of U.S. 30 from the Interstate 35 interchange near Ames, east to 11thStreet in Nevada.
This meeting will also provide information and discussion on a proposed inlay project on eastbound U.S. 30 from east of the I-35 interchange near Ames to just west of Nevada. This project is expected to be completed in the 2013 construction season.
The public is invited to attend the meeting anytime between 5 and 6:30 p.m. at the Crossroads Baptist Church, 57011 U.S. 30 in Ames.
Several preliminary conceptual layouts of potential interchange locations will be shown at the meeting.
This public information meeting will be conducted utilizing an open forum format. Iowa DOT staff will be present to informally discuss the proposed alternatives. No formal presentation will be made.
For general information regarding the proposed improvement or public meeting, contact Tony Gustafson, assistant district engineer, Iowa DOT District 1 Office, 1020 S. Fourth St., Ames, Iowa 50010, telephone 515-239-1635 or 800-899-0623, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Visit the Iowa DOT's project-related public involvement event website at www.iowadot.gov/pim for information about scheduled public meetings and hearings, and opportunities to offer input to the Iowa DOT during the development of certain projects.

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Golden Tales: Dane Reynolds
Dane is a wild card in this year's Quiksilver Pro – a card he's been playing in contests for the past few years. A lot of people are wondering if Dane's interested in re-qualifying for the world tour so we chatted with him on one of the lay days to find out.
QS: We're going to try and avoid the most annoying question about whether you're going to be qualifying or not … how does it feel with everyone asking you about that?
Oh, I don't know, I'm fine with it. Seems to be what most people are curious about right now which is cool. But I don't have to tell anyone because that's not really my plan.
QS: I guess a lot of people are asking because they'd like to see you on tour. Does it give you some sort of motivation?
I appreciate that anybody wants to watch me surf and I understand why people want to see me in contests because I like watching the contests too. So I'm honored that everybody cares, I guess.
QS: Last year you were really busy with the editing and shooting of 'Slow Dance' and were out of the water a little while. What's your motivation now? Just to surf really good waves?
Yeah, just to get all my surfboards dialed in, get some good trips filmed and do some cool projects this year. I'm going to do a few more events this year than I did last year for sure.
My main focus this year is to surf the best I can and get the best waves I can and hopefully put out a couple of really cool projects. 'Loaded' was really fun and was a lot looser and easier to put together than 'Slow Dance' and it was fun being on the surfing end again.
QS: Have you scored any good waves yet? Any good trips?
No, at the end of last year I was injured a bit and started freaking out watching contests and seeing John John and Julian killing it and thought that's where I wanted to be. So I came to Australia at the beginning of the year and did the first two QSs but it didn't feel right and the waves sucked. I was in California for the first month of the year and the waves were small and they have been here too, so it's been a little messed up but hopefully I get in the groove.
QS: What do you think about the standard for the first event of the year?
It's been kind of hard to tell where the level is at so far because it's only been two-foot little peeling point break stuff – except the women got four foot and much better waves. [laughs] I was pretty impressed with their level of surfing; they're surfing really well. As far as the level of surfing this year I'm sure it's another notch up from last year but I haven't seen enough to really tell yet.
QS: As you're not following the world tour this year you almost have an outsider's perspective. What do you think of the new ASP gig?
It doesn't seem like that big of a change yet, I don't think. There's just bigger scaffolding and the site looks a little different but I haven't noticed a big difference in the way that's it's run, but it does seem like a little bit more professional.
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Wellesley, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., just west of Boston. Originally part of Dedham, it became the Western Precinct of Needham when that town was set off in 1711. Incorporated as a separate town in 1881, it was named for the estate of Samuel Welles, who had settled the site in 1763. Although some manufacturing appeared in the late 19th century, the town's character and initial growth were mainly influenced by Wellesley College, founded there as a seminary for women in 1870 by Henry Fowle Durant; its campus borders Lake Waban. The campus of Babson College (1919) features a huge world globe 28 feet (9 metres) in diameter and weighing 25 tons, as well as a relief map of the United States that is 60 by 40 feet (18 by 12 metres). Also located there is Dana Hall School (a girls' boarding and day school founded in 1881) and a campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College (1961). Area 10 square miles (26 square km). Pop. (2000) 26,613; (2010) 27,982.


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One of the oldest printed books in ZSR's Rare Books Collection is a Latin translation of Alī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl's principal scientific work, Kitāb al-bāriʻ fī aḥkām al-nujūm. The text, commonly known as Liber in iudiciis astrorum, is a treatise on astrological methods by an 11th century Arab mathematician, printed in 1485 by a German printer working in Venice. The book is featured in the Special Collections exhibit Letters in Lead: Moveable Type and the Books It Created. Its history is a fascinating anecdote in the story of how print culture developed in Renaissance Europe.
Around 1450 a goldsmith in Mainz named Johannes Gutenberg developed a viable method for casting moveable type out of metal. The invention made mechanical printing feasible and gave rise to an entirely new profession in Renaissance Europe. Many aspiring printers learned the craft of printing from Gutenberg's successors, and within a few years a coterie of printers had formed in Mainz. In 1462, however, warfare between rival sects of German Catholics led to the sack of Mainz and a diaspora of its printers around Europe. One of these displaced printers was Erhard Ratdolt, who transplanted his fledgling business to Venice.
Ratdolt flourished in his new location and quickly gained a reputation as an innovative printer of scientific texts. He experimented with multicolor printing and invented techniques for integrating woodcut illustrations and diagrams into pages of text. Ratdolt is particularly famous for producing the first printed text of Euclid's Elements in 1482, and he specialized in printing editions of classic works of science and mathematics.
In 1485 Ratdolt printed the book in ZSR's collection, a work on astronomy by the 11th century Tunisian court mathematician Alī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, whose name was Latinized to Albohazen Haly or Haly Abenragel in European publications. Ratdolt's volume bore the Latin title Preclarissimus liber completus in iudicijs astrorum ( The Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars).
This astrological text was already well known to scholars in Renaissance Europe. It had been translated from Arabic into Castilian Spanish by astronomer Jehuda ben Moses Cohen in the 13th century, and from Spanish into a number of Latin translations.
In the world of the Renaissance, there was no sharp division between what we would call astronomy (the study of celestial bodies) and astrology (the influence of those celestial bodies on terrestrial events). Medieval astrology was based on an Aristotelian concept of the universe, as interpreted by Claudius Ptolemy , which posited a universe with a stationary Earth at its center, surrounded by concentric spheres containing stars, planets, and other celestial bodies.
Medieval and Renaissance astrologers used mathematical formulas to predict the movement of objects in the sky. These calculations were used to create calendars, to determine propitious times for various activities, and to predict eclipses and other unusual events. Astrology was an important scientific pursuit, and Renaissance scholars eagerly sought to recover Arab and Byzantine astrological texts. The eastern astrologers had developed advanced techniques that were of great interest to scholars in western Europe.
Erhard Ratdolt's Venice edition of Liber in iudiciis astroroum made this text available in print for the first time. As an example of incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1500), it is both typical and innovative.
Fifteenth century books share many attributes of the manuscript volumes that existed for centuries before the invention of moveable type.
Like most early books, Ratdolt's volume has no title page or table of contents. Its text was printed in black letter type, which reflected the manuscript handwriting prevalent in 15th century Europe.
As in manuscript volumes, the text is printed in two columns with minimal punctuation. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript texts, like the one pictured above, relied on rubrication – initial letters and other text in colored ink—to indicate section breaks and other textual navigation. Early printed books often left space for rubrication to be added by hand to printed text, since multicolor printing was difficult and time consuming. Erhard Ratdolt hit upon the idea of using decorative woodcut initials in place of color.
Ratdolt also pioneered techniques for including tables and woodcut charts in his pages of text, which was particularly important for scientific and mathematical books.
In the 1480s Erhard Ratdolt also printed editions of several other important astrological works. As historian Jonathan Green observes, Ratdolt "achieved a near monopoly during that decade for many astronomical and astrological works" [Printing and Prophecy (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2012) 135].
Ratdolt's edition of Liber in iudiciis astroroum was a large and probably expensive book. But the original purchaser of ZSR's copy obviously make good use of the volume. It was heavily annotated by its 15th century owner(s), with pages full of manuscript notes, underlinings, added headings, and astrological symbols.
Erhard Ratdolt's Liber in iudiciis astroroum embodies the cultural exchanges and the technological innovations taking place in Renaissance Europe. ZSR's copy of this book was purchased in 1964 with funds from the Oscar T. Smith endowment. It is on view in ZSR Library's Special Collections and Archives Reading Room through April 30, as part of the Letters in Lead exhibit, which traces the development of printing type and book design in Europe from its beginnings through the 21st century.


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Guitars, amps, mics and three different studios: how Ace recorded tracks for his latest.
The JCM900 SL-X and 5150 II in the control room. |
I kept thorough notes on what mics, amps and preamps were used on each song (as well as taking pics), so that if we came back to a song a month or more later, we could remember the setups. For most of the electric tracks, I used a Royer 122V tube ribbon mic or a Royer 121, along with either a Sennheiser MD 421 II or the classic Shure SM57. At first, we also used room mics, but they were rarely used in the mix, so we eventually just settled on close mics. Ace liked the mics to be right up on the speakers, which does provide some proximity bass and a very up-front sound.
Royer 122V and Shure SM57 up close on a Marshall cabinet. |
When cutting acoustic parts, I'd use a variety of mics, from AKG 414s and Earthworks QTCs to a single AKG C 12 VR "The Tube" with a modified capsule. That was the primary vocal mic used on the record as well. We also used the DI output on any acoustics that had one, just to have the extra sonic options later.
Ace's selection of 'bursts. |
Alex also recorded two tracks of drums with Anton in Ace's live room. He used an AKG D 112 on the kick, a pair of the ADKs as overheads, an AKG 414 on bottom of snare, an SM57 on top, as well as Sennheiser MD 409s on the toms. He also tracked vocals with the AKG "The Tube" and a 414, using mostly the Focusrite ISA 428.
The AC15 used on "Genghis Kahn." |
I also asked Marty how the record was mixed, and how they did the guitars on "Fox on the Run," and this is what he told me: "We mixed it all in Pro Tools, with things like the URS and SSL channel strip plug-ins. You know, we used all the good stuff that's available out there! The whole approach was that he wanted to keep it as old school as possible. The fact of the matter is we ended up tightening a few little things, but it was pretty much all there. We didn't put everything on the grid, but like most records, if something just needed a nudge here and there, we did it.
We used drum samples with the real drums, just to give it a big sound. That also helped tie up a long recording process of his and make it sound like one record.
"For 'Fox on the Run,' we went DI, using Digidesign's Eleven. I played a little on that track as well, some rhythm and some bass, and Brian Tichy played drums. We really knocked that one out and did it in about a day. Overall, it's a heavy, riff-based record with some great songs. He got to lay down some killer parts on all his songs without anyone telling him what to do. We kind of cleaned it up a bit, killed a couple of guitars if there was too much going on, but it's all Ace. He's a guitar hero, and I just felt we could help him tie it all together to make a cohesive- sounding record. It came out great."


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SciDAC 2
DOE Announces $60 Million in Projects to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
September 7, 2006
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science today announced approximately $60 million in new awards annually for 30 computational science projects over the next three to five years. The projects are aimed at accelerating research in designing new materials, developing future energy sources, studying global climate change, improving environmental cleanup methods and understanding physics from the tiniest particles to the massive explosions of supernovae.
"Advanced computing is a critical element of President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative and these projects represent an important path to scientific discovery," DOE Under Secretary for Science Raymond Orbach said. "We anticipate that they will develop and improve software for simulating scientific problems and help reduce the time-to-market for new technologies."
Sponsored by the DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, SciDAC-2 will bring together some of the nation's top researchers at the department's national laboratories and U. S. universities to create the software and infrastructure needed to help scientists effectively utilize the next generation of supercomputers. DOE's supercomputers tackle complex scientific challenges – some of which can only be studied through high performance computation and simulation. These projects, selected from a total of 240 proposals, involve 70 institutions and hundreds of researchers and students.
Seventeen science application projects will receive approximately $26.1 million in awards annually to study problems ranging from quarks to genomes to astrophysics. Two new scientific areas to be addressed under SciDAC-2 are groundwater transport of underground contaminants, an important factor in DOE's environmental cleanup mission, and computational biology focused on how biological systems may be tapped to help provide new energy sources or help with environmental remediation. These new project areas will complement research in fusion energy, global climate, turbulence, stress corrosion cracking, computational chemistry and quantum chromodynamics.
In support of these scientific applications, approximately $24.3 million in annual awards will allow SciDAC-2 to establish nine Centers for Enabling Technologies. Multidisciplinary teams will be led by national laboratories and universities and will focus on meeting the specific needs of SciDAC science applications researchers as they move toward petascale computing. The centers will specialize in applied mathematics, computer science, distributed computing or visualization and will be closely tied to specific science applications.
SciDAC-2 will also increase the presence of the program in the academic community by creating four university-led SciDAC institutes with thirteen participating universities. The institutes will receive approximately $8.2 million in awards annually. Through hands-on workshops and tutorials, the SciDAC institutes will help a broad range of researchers prepare their applications to take advantage of the increasing capabilities of supercomputing centers around the country as well as help foster the next generation of computational scientists.
SciDAC-2 expands on the original SciDAC program by collaborating with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as new funding partners. The NSF is contributing nearly $3 million a year to the Open Science Grid that supports the large, international physics collaborations supported by DOE and the NSF. The NNSA is contributing nearly $3 million a year for physics and materials research.
The newly announced projects build on the success of the original SciDAC projects launched in 2001. Those projects achieved a number of scientific breakthroughs, including:
- For the first time, astrophysicists simulated the conditions which trigger massive stellar explosions know as Type 1a supernovae, which are critical to understanding the nature of our universe.
- Climate modeling tools developed and improved under SciDAC enabled U.S. climate scientists to make the largest contribution of global climate modeling data to the world's leading body on climate studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- A better understanding of combustion, which provides 80 percent of the energy used in the United States. Scientists created the first laboratory-scale 3-D flame simulation, an achievement which will likely help improve efficiency and reduce pollution.
Additional information on all 30 SciDAC projects, along with descriptions of the Institutes, Centers for Enabling Technology and Science Applications, can be found at http://www.scidac.gov/. Researchers from industry, academia and laboratories can also get information and advice from the SciDAC Outreach Center at http://outreach.scidac.gov/.
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Just in case you missed it, last week the Dev-Team released a jailbreak for firmware 3.1.3. Like every time a new firmware update/jailbreak is released, be sure you read all the info on the Dev-Team's page before upgrading. There really is no huge reason to upgrade to firmware 3.1.3 it was basically just bug fixes but, if you must, check out the info below.
On Tuesday, Apple released firmware 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod touches. Unless you've personally observed a problem with the reporting of your battery percentage, there's no reason to update to 3.1.3. We know some of you will want to anyway. Superbowl Sunday's PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X will let you do so safely, preserving your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. (If you use the blacksn0w unlock (at baseband 05.11.07), you need to stay at 3.1.2.)
iPhone 3G and 3GS unlockers should always be very wary to update their firmware. This is no exception. If you make a mistake along the way you may find yourself updating to official 3.1.3 in which case you will lose your unlock, possibly forever.
iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your "SHSH hashes" backed up via Cydia. That's because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak.
If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom. If you don't know if you have an early bootrom or not, please avoid updating until you learn more.
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Any credible account of the career of U.S. senator Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, must acknowledge this salient fact: He is conservative. He's no maverick who managed to win a powerful office in a crimson state despite staking out positions that challenged the beliefs of his base.
He has opposed abortion rights, gay rights and government regulations on business. The American Conservative Union, whose ratings are considered the gold standard for grading elected officials on adherence to conservative dogma, gives him a lifetime score of 92.5 out of 100.
Still, Chambliss now finds himself under fire from right-wing extremists in the Republican Party — absolutists who believe that even a handshake with President Obama is a dangerous sign of collaboration with the enemy. So the senator will retire in 2014 rather than face a primary challenge from the right.
This is another unsettling development for the GOP, another sign of a party engaged in civil war. If Saxby Chambliss does not meet the standard for conservatism, then Republicans are doomed to bloodletting well into the foreseeable future. If a score of 92.5, which usually counts as an A, doesn't pass muster, then the GOP is starting down the road to extinction.
The rabid right's hostility to Chambliss grows out of his membership in the "Gang of Six," a bipartisan group of senators who have toiled over the last couple of years to come to a compromise that would begin to eliminate federal budget deficits. Though he signed onto anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's no-tax-increase pledge when he first sought a congressional seat, he has lately begun to voice doubt about its usefulness — as any reasonable person would.
If Tea Partiers were as worried about red ink as they claim, they would throw Chambliss a parade and hail him as a hero. But they've begun muttering about his conservative bona fides instead.
Last year, Georgia blogger Erick Erickson, a leader of the right-wing faction, wrote: "Saxby has consistently stabbed conservatives in the back and it is time to take him out." By the time Chambliss voted in the earliest hours of New Year's Day to support a tax hike on Americans earning more than $400,000 a year — a deal which, by the way, cemented in place George W. Bush's tax cuts for everyone else — he was doomed among the absolutists.
Chambliss has said publicly that he's not running from a primary challenge, but instead leaving a Congress that he finds dysfunctional.
But he is disingenuous — "The one thing I was totally confident of was my re-election," he told reporters last week — in suggesting that the prospect of a primary challenge didn't factor into his plans. He might have won, but he would have been forced to defend his decision to employ negotiation and compromise with his Democratic colleagues, strategies Republican extremists despise. He would have encountered rabid challengers willing to accuse him of grotesque crimes against party dogma. And he may have been forced to renounce the statesmanlike image he has spent the last few years building.
The senator is right about this much: Politics has become ugly and ruinous, especially inside the Republican Party. He joins a list of towering conservative figures who have left office — or been run out — after encountering the lunatic ravings of the crazed ultra-right. That includes Bob Bennett of Utah and Richard Lugar of Indiana, GOP stalwarts who lost to challenges by ultraconservatives.
And who might replace Chambliss? Several Georgia Republicans are eyeing the race, including U.S. representative Paul Broun, who told a church audience last year: "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell." Broun, by the way, is a physician who sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Obama and other Democrats — as well as many moderate Republicans — have wondered how long it will be before the raging fever breaks on the rabid right. Well, by the time it does, the patient — the Republican Party — might be dead.
(Cynthia Tucker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached at email@example.com.)
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
CLR INTERVIEW: Ernest Freeberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. His new book, Democracy's Prisoner, tells the story of Eugene V. Debs, a five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President. In 1918 Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act. Below is Ernest's interview with the California Literary Review.
- Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
- Harvard University Press, 392 pp.
Who was Eugene Debs and what brought him into conflict with the government?
Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time presidential candidate for a third-party crusade against capitalism. He was a homegrown rebel, born and raised in Indiana, and a powerful speaker who knew how to translate socialism into an American idiom. In his view, when citizens finally threw out the "plutocrats" who were running the country, they would be taking the next step in realizing the democratic promise of the American Revolution. He claimed that, just as the abolitionists fought to liberate the chattel slave, socialism was about to liberate the "wage slaves."
While many politicians and newspaper editors thought Debs was a dangerous crank, he was not molested much until America entered World War One. Debs was no pacifist—he figured that violence was sometimes necessary to move history forward. But, like most of his fellow radicals, he believed that wars were a symptom of capitalist greed. Rich men declare wars, and make money off wars, while poor men die in them. The "Great War" between rival European empires seemed to him a perfect example of the point, and he had no use for Woodrow Wilson's claim that Americans were fighting for the loftier goal of "making the world safe for democracy." Saying as much got him a ten year jail sentence in 1918.
How were Americans persuaded of the necessity to enter the First World War? Who was George Creel?
When Woodrow Wilson brought America into the war, he put George Creel in charge of building public support for the war. That was a big job since the country was deeply divided for a variety of reasons. Creel ran the Committee on Public Information, the first time the government created a full-time propaganda machine to promote enthusiasm for a war, and it worked all too well. Creel hired thousands of America's best academics, artists, writers and ad men to whip up a campaign that he called "advertising America." Creel was a true believer in Wilson's crusade to create a new world order out of the war, and he claimed that he was only bringing the mighty power of truth to bear on a great public question.
One of his critics, the Republican senator Hiram Johnson, saw it differently. He called it "picking our pockets to poison our minds." If you go back and look at some of the beautiful but lurid war posters, or read some of the academic studies published by Creel's group, you have to conclude that Johnson was on to something there.
What were the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act?
At the president's request, Congress passed the Espionage Act soon after the US entered the war. Wilson asked for power to censor all newspapers, but editors in the mainstream press hooted him down. But the Espionage Act contained two key provisions that the government used to go after war critics. First, the postmaster was allowed to deny mailing privileges to any publication that seemed to be undermining Americans' enthusiasm for the war. Post Office censors used that power in a ham-fisted way, and succeeded in driving much of the nation's lively radical press into bankruptcy by the end of the war.
And second, the law banned any speech that stirred up disloyalty in the army. If you go back and look at the Congressional debate over the Espionage Act, it seems clear that many lawmakers only meant to target saboteurs, those trying to encourage mutinies, that sort of thing. But prosecutors used the law more broadly, arresting people who made anti-war speeches, or even in a number of cases folks who made off-hand comments against Wilson and his war in saloons and on street corners. The government claimed that these malcontents were guilty of trying to incite young men to break the law, discouraging them from doing their duty by submitting themselves to the draft.
A couple thousand anti-war speakers were arrested under the law, Debs among them, and about twelve-hundred were convicted, sentenced in many cases to ten or more years. But by the summer of 1918, the attorney general claimed that too many dissenters were slipping though his net, so Congress added amendments, known as the Sedition Act, which stand as a high-water mark of American intolerance. Under this law, people could be arrested for using "profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" when discussing the constitution, the flag, and the military uniform. The law was so extreme that even the attorney general thought this went too far, and used it more sparingly.
What role did vigilantes play in suppressing opposition to the war?
When federal agents arrested war dissenters, they sometimes claimed that they were doing the protestors a favor—the alternative for them was often being attacked by a swarm of outraged patriots. This form of direct and democratic "justice" has a long history in America, but the emotions of the war unleashed an unprecedented number of attacks on unpopular speakers. These vigilantes believed they were doing their part for the war effort by tearing folks off soapboxes, kidnapping and torturing some of them, humiliating those suspected of disloyalty, forcing immigrants to buy bonds or salute the flag, and even lynching some.
The government did little to reign in this violence, and even encouraged it. The attorney general asked Americans to report suspicious activities among their neighbors, and gave semi-official status to vigilante groups. In turn these volunteer spies searched homes and offices without warrant, destroyed property, and intimidated many into silence. After the war ended, things did not improve since the American Legion, formed by returning veterans, devoted itself to enforcing its brand of patriotism, and led quite a number of attacks.
The press, particularly the New York Times, comes across in your book as the Fox News of its day. How did the press cover the war and the opposition to it?
The press defended its own right to operate without censorship, but most editors were also eager to demonstrate their enthusiasm for the war and their loyalty to the government. They did this in part by bashing the radicals. It seems odd that these editors were so jealous of their own First Amendment rights, and so cavalier about the speech rights of others. But they held the common view that constitutional rights only belong to those who use them responsibly. In their view, the radicals wanted the right to say things that might, in the end, lose the war and even tip the country into a revolution that would overturn the Constitution.
And so they were happy to see Debs go to jail. The New York Times ridiculed Debs's claim that he enjoyed a First Amendment right to speak his mind about the war, insisting that the government had a more important right to "defend itself against unbridled speech." And the Washington Post called Debs a "a public menace" whose free speech claims were nothing more than "hairsplitting over the infringement of liberty." My favorite, though, is the editor who called Debs a "treasonably-inclined blatherskite."
The radicals were not surprised by any of this. Long before the war broke out, they had argued that the mainstream press was owned by, and operated for, the master class. Their critique of the impact of media monopoly on democratic debate was prescient.
What did Debs say in his Canton, Ohio speech that landed him in jail?
Debs defended his comrades who had already been sent to jail for speaking against the war, some of them his close friends, and he disputed the common charge that the Socialists were pro-German. He added that America's greatest enemy was not the Kaiser, but those American businessmen who had taken the country to war, and were making inordinate profits from the venture. Debs also repeated the standard socialist talking point that wars were a nasty by-product of capitalist greed, and that when working people took charge of the earth, peace would reign. The most often quoted line from that speech was Debs's comment, "you need to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder."
Debs knew that federal agents were in the crowd, and he may have expected to be arrested, though I don't think he was actively courting martyrdom—more likely, he was saying what he felt he had to say. He was in his 60s and in frail health, and he certainly did not relish the prospect of spending his last days in prison, but he felt it was his duty not to remain silent while his friends were going to jail. He was a reluctant martyr.
What were Debs' thoughts on the Bolshevik Revolution and communist Russia?
Like most radicals in his day, Debs welcomed news of the Russian Revolution, and claimed to be an American Bolshevik. At a time when socialists were being routed in the US, and the European movement had been disgraced by its failure to stop the war, the Russians offered radicals the one ray of hope. When the war raged, critics denounced Debs as a friend of the Kaiser. After the Bolsheviks took over, they thought he was even more dangerous, since he was an agent of Leninism.
Debs remained an admirer of the Russian Revolution all his life, but he had serious misgivings about the Bolsheviks' methods—their use of show trials and violence against other socialists, and their attempt to impose their will on socialist parties around the world. In the end Debs decided to reject communism, and stick with his beloved Socialist Party, even as it was disintegrating. He hated the idea that socialism needed to be ushered in by a "dictatorship of the proletariat." In spite of all he had suffered at the hands of the American justice system, he remained convinced that the best path to realizing socialism was the democratic process.
What brought about Debs' release from prison?
The first half of Democracy's Prisoner explains how Debs ended up sentenced to ten years in prison. The second half tells the equally important story about how he got out, and in three years, not ten. When Debs went to prison, radicals were outraged, but there's not much evidence that most Americans felt sorry to see Debs go. That soon changed, in large part because a variety of labor radicals, civil liberties lawyers and average citizens joined forces to demand what they called "amnesty" for America's "political prisoners." The American Civil Liberties Union emerged out of this fight to free Debs and the other jailed dissenters. Union workers by the thousands debated amnesty, and many locals sent petitions to the president calling for a pardon for these "class-war" prisoners. And the National Archives holds many hundreds of letters from Americans of every background who were finally fed up to see a man like Debs behind bars for speaking his mind—even if they disagreed with his politics and with his views on the war. One of my favorites was the working-class woman from Chicago who told the president, "a government that will deliberately take away the inalienable rights of natural born citizens, throttle free speech, institute espionage and intimidation systems, cannot be held in low enough contempt by its subjects."
In the end, this amnesty movement provoked an intense three year national debate over the meaning of the First Amendment, the start of an ongoing conversation over the best way to reconcile the right to free speech with the demands of national security.
All that pressure never worked on Wilson, who bore a bitter grudge against Debs by the time he left office in 1921. But Warren Harding was a more jovial and less rigid fellow, and he soon decided that he had nothing to gain by keeping Debs and his comrades in jail. As part of his plan to return America to "normalcy," he let Debs out of prison on Christmas morning, 1921. Harding did not do many things right, but that was one of them.
And how did Debs eventually die?
Debs left prison in bad shape physically, and the socialist movement was shattered, the victim of government persecution and also a bitter schism between communists and socialists. Debs tried to unite the radical movement, but failed. Instead, he left another legacy that we have all benefited from. By standing up against the Wilson administration's abuse of executive power, and maintaining his dignity through the ordeal of his trial and imprisonment, he forced many thousands of Americans to grapple with meaning of free speech rights in times of war. In the end, that debate not only liberated Debs, but set in motion bigger changes that have expanded our own right to dissent.
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It seems like every other day Jef Holm and Emily Maynard are validating their engagement, slamming breakup rumors, reassuring fans they're still together and letting us know they're "so happy," but some recent social media activity indicates they are thinking twice about their relationship.
Is it actually heading toward splitsville?
For now the short answer is yes.
Holm has changed his Facebook relationship status from "engaged" to "single," seemingly confirming rampant speculation that the two have called it quits.
The revealing switch-up comes on the heels of other telling hints.
Just a day earlier, Holm deleted his Twitter profile pic of himself and Emily—now it's a solo shot. He also changed his Instagram photo from him and Emily to one of him and a friend at his organization People Water. Meanwhile, Emily changed her Twitter profile photo sometime last week to a snapshot of her and daughter, Ricki.
But that's not all!
Maynard tweeted "keep on the bright side" and posted a photo of the quote, "She is clothed with strength and dignity and laughs without fear of the future."
Meanwhile Jef wrote, "Can't wait to hang with my mom & sisters in AZ for the next few days. Excited to have another niece! #lovebabies," and retweeted, "#God has a way to heal your sorrow. God has a way to touch your tomorrow. Trust him."
—Reporting by Lindsey Caldwell
(Originally published on Oct. 15, 2012, at 9:45 p.m. PT)


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Teachers and principals are becoming increasingly comfortable using online tools to hone their professional skills, and are turning to options from social networking to Web-based classes to do so, a new nationwide survey reveals.
The findings, which cover a lot of ground, were included in the Speak up 2012 survey, "From Chalkboards to Tablets: The Digital Conversion of the K-12 Classroom." Speak Up is an effort led by Project Tomorrow, a nonprofit group based in Irvine, Calif., that seeks to improve students' academic preparation through technology and other means.
The survey found that the number of principals who said they support professional growth through some form of social networking more than tripled, from 8 percent in 2008 to 25 percent today. The portion of teachers who reported using social-networking tools also jumped, from 22 percent to 39 percent, during that time period. (See the table below.) The percentages of teachers and principals participating in online classes and virtual professional learning communities also rose signficantly, the survey found.
With some specific technologies, the evolution in usage is particularly striking. In 2008, just 26 percent of principals used webinars for professional growth. The number is 63 percent today.
At the same time, the opinions of teachers, principals, and others were, perhasps not surprisingly, divided on whether educators' job evaluations should include a measure of how adept they are in using technology to boost instruction and student achievement. While substantial percentages of parents, principals, and district administrators support including that information in evaluations, just 43 percent of teachers backed that idea, compared with 47 percent opposed.
The survey also appears to reflect parents' growing ease with some forms of technology as tools for communicating with schools. Thirty-seven percent of parents said they would like their children's schools to communicate with them via text message, compared with just 5 percent two years ago. But just 23 percent of teachers reported that texting with teachers is a common practice.
The results are based on responses from 364,240 K-12 students, 39,713 parents, 53,947 teachers, 2,399 librarians, 1,564 district administrators, 3,947 school administrators, and 500 technology leaders, from 8,020 public and private schools. The survey was conducted online using a customized data-collection tool that is unique to the Speak Up project, according to Project Tomorrow.
The results also underscore school officials' mounting worries about ensuring teachers' and students' access to the Web, as demand for online capacity increases. In survey results from five years ago, just 12 percent of school-site administrators regarded concerns about digital equity as a primary challenge; now 41 percent say that is so. And while only 10 percent of technology leaders in the survey identified Web capacity and bandwidth issues as a critical issue in 2010, 34 percent say it is their most challenging tech issue today.


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"Keep Your Cool at a New School," New Era, Sept. 2013, 20–21
Keep Your Cool at a New School
Remembering these 5 principles can help you face an unfamiliar place.
Your alarm goes off, and as you reach to turn it off you suddenly remember, "Oh no, it's my first day at a new school!" As tempted as you are to pull the covers over your head and go back to sleep, you know you've got to face the day. But what if nobody likes you? What if you can't make friends or if people make fun of you when they find out you're a member of the Church? Relax! You've got this covered. Remember these five gospel principles and let your worries fade away.
Remember Who You Are
You are a child of God and He loves you. You can rely on Heavenly Father when you need comfort. Even if you don't make friends at school right away, He will not leave you alone. Sister Elaine S. Dalton, former Young Women general president, taught: "When you make a transition, you are never alone. Our Heavenly Father knows exactly where you are, and He will be with you" ("How to Dare Great Things," New Era, Mar. 2012, 48). For more information on God's love and comfort, read John 3:16, John 14:18, 2 Nephi 1:15, and Alma 26:37.
Let the Gospel Lift You
The gospel provides answers and guidance for the situations you face every day. For example, a young man from Nigeria found comfort when he needed to take an exam for school but didn't have the required money (read "A Test to Take Tests" on page 47). In every situation, think about how the gospel can help you. For example, if you're struggling to keep up in your new classes, read Doctrine and Covenants 88:118 and you'll find that you can get help from the Lord as you learn. If you're surrounded by bad things at school, study the life and teachings of Moroni—he had great insight on living in a world full of wickedness (see Mormon 8 and Ether 12, along with his father's counsel in Moroni 9).
Seek Out Good Friends
Be friendly to everyone at your new school, but make sure that the people you spend your time with are the kinds of friends who support you and help you live the gospel—they'll make a huge difference in your life. For more on this topic, watch the video "A True Friend" at lds.org/go/93True and read the "Friends" section in For the Strength of Youth. You can also read "My Friend Stood Up with Me" and "An Unexpected Friend" on pages 46–47 of this issue.
Be an Example and Be Yourself
You may be worried that you'll already stick out by being the new kid in school and that announcing you're a Latter-day Saint will make you stick out even more. But being an example is not about calling attention to yourself—it's about doing what's right. Just be who you are and act in a way that's consistent with your gospel knowledge. Your friends and peers will appreciate being around someone who is genuine and not always pretending to be someone else. To learn more about being an example, read 1 Timothy 4:12, Matthew 5:16, and Doctrine and Covenants 115:5. You can also read "What's So Great about the Great and Spacious Building?" on page 4 of this issue.
Focus on Your Blessings
Rather than worry if people will judge you for keeping your standards, remember that you'll have greater peace of mind when you stand up for what you believe, because great blessings come when we keep the commandments (see D&C 130:20–21), although you may not always recognize those blessings immediately. Not everyone at your school will have the same standards you have, but you will find some people who admire you when you have the courage to live your beliefs. (To learn more about having courage to keep your standards, read Joshua 1:9 and 2 Timothy 4:7, and then watch President Thomas S. Monson's video "Dare to Stand Alone" at lds.org/go/93Dare). When times get tough, try counting your blessings, perhaps even keeping a daily record of them, to help you focus on all the things God is blessing you with each day.
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DETROIT (AP) - Police officers, members of a statewide auto theft prevention program and volunteers are scheduled to go door-to-door to homes and businesses in an effort to stem carjackings across Detroit.
The effort is being kicked off Monday at the Chosen Generation Community Center.
Door hangers, posters and signs about the city's "Heatwave Initiative" will be distributed. The police department is collaborating with H.E.A.T., which stands for Help Eliminate Auto Theft.
Residents and business owners are urged to call a confidential toll-free tip line when they have information about suspected car thieves, carjackers, vehicle chop shops, auto-related insurance fraud and identity theft. The number is 800-242-HEAT.


text: A New York Times bestseller, The Great Awakening helps us rediscover our moral center and provides both the needed inspiration and a concrete plan to hold politics accountable and find solutions to our greatest challenges. Jim Wallis reminds us that religious faith was a driving force behind our greatest national reforms and that these "great awakenings" happened at crucial times in our nation's history to propel us toward the common good. The time is ripe for another movement that will transform this country, and Jim shows us that a revival is happening as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.


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PITTSBURGH — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image sequences by panning or zooming in and out of the images while simultaneously moving back and forth through time.
Viewers, for instance, can use the system to focus in on the details of a booth within a panorama of a carnival midway, but also reverse time to see how the booth was constructed. Or they can watch a group of plants sprout, grow and flower, shifting perspective to watch some plants move wildly as they grow while others get eaten by caterpillars. Or, they can view a computer simulation of the early universe, watching as gravity works across 600 million light-years to condense matter into filaments and finally into stars that can be seen by zooming in for a close up.
"With GigaPan Time Machine, you can simultaneously explore space and time at extremely high resolutions," said Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics and head of the CREATE Lab. "Science has always been about narrowing your point of view — selecting a particular experiment or observation that you think might provide insight. But this system enables what we call exhaustive science, capturing huge amounts of data that can then be explored in amazing ways."
The system is an extension of the GigaPan technology developed by the CREATE Lab and NASA, which can capture a mosaic of hundreds or thousands of digital pictures and stitch those frames into a panorama that be interactively explored via computer. To extend GigaPan into the time dimension, image mosaics are repeatedly captured at set intervals, and then stitched across both space and time to create a video in which each frame can be hundreds of millions, or even billions of pixels.
An enabling technology for time-lapse GigaPans is a feature of the HTML5 language that has been incorporated into such browsers as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari. HTML5, the latest revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) standard that is at the core of the Internet, makes browsers capable of presenting video content without use of plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Quicktime.
Using HTML5, CREATE Lab computer scientists Randy Sargent, Chris Bartley and Paul Dille developed algorithms and software architecture that make it possible to shift seamlessly from one video portion to another as viewers zoom in and out of Time Machine imagery. To keep bandwidth manageable, the GigaPan site streams only those video fragments that pertain to the segment and/or time frame being viewed.
"We were crashing the browsers early on," Sargent recalled. "We're really pushing the browser technology to the limits."
Guidelines on how individuals can capture time-lapse images using GigaPan cameras are included on the site created for hosting the new imagery's large data files, http://timemachine.gigapan.org. Sargent explained the CREATE Lab is eager to work with people who want to capture Time Machine imagery with GigaPan, or use the visualization technology for other applications.
Once a Time Machine GigaPan has been created, viewers can annotate and save their explorations of it in the form of video "Time Warps."
Though the time-lapse mode is an extension of the original GigaPan concept, scientists already are applying the visualization techniques to other types of Big Data. Carnegie Mellon's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology, for instance, has used it to visualize a simulation of the early universe performed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center by Tiziana Di Matteo, associate professor of physics.
"Simulations are a huge bunch of numbers, ugly numbers," Di Matteo said. "Visualizing even a portion of a simulation requires a huge amount of computing itself." Visualization of these large data sets is crucial to the science, however. "Discoveries often come from just looking at it," she explained.
Rupert Croft, associate professor of physics, said cosmological simulations are so massive that only a segment can be visualized at a time using usual techniques. Yet whatever is happening within that segment is being affected by forces elsewhere in the simulation that cannot be readily accessed. By converting the entire simulation into a time-lapse GigaPan, however, Croft and his Ph.D. student, Yu Feng, were able to create an image that provided both the big picture of what was happening in the early universe and the ability to look in detail at any region of interest.
Using a conventional GigaPan camera, Janet Steven, an assistant professor of biology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, has created time-lapse imagery of rapid-growing brassicas, known as Wisconsin Fast Plants. "This is such an incredible tool for plant biology," she said. "It gives you the advantage of observing individual plants, groups of plants and parts of plants, all at once."
Steven, who has received GigaPan training through the Fine Outreach for Science program, said time-lapse photography has long been used in biology, but the GigaPan technology makes it possible to observe a number of plants in detail without having separate cameras for each plant. Even as one plant is studied in detail, it's possible to also see what neighboring plants are doing and how that might affect the subject plant, she added.
Steven said creating time-lapse GigaPans of entire landscapes could be a powerful tool for studying seasonal change in plants and ecosystems, an area of increasing interest for understanding climate change. Time-lapse GigaPan imagery of biological experiments also could be an educational tool, allowing students to make independent observations and develop their own hypotheses.
Google Inc. supported development of GigaPan Time Machine.
Nourbakhsh provides a guided tour of GigaPan Time Machine's features on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_SZdTk-MDk.
Follow the School of Computer Science on Twitter @SCSatCMU.
About Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion fundraising campaign, titled "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.


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Facebook finally allows you to edit your embarrassing tyops, er, typos
If you've ever written "poo" instead of "pool" or "duck" instead of, er, "suck" in your Facebook status updates, then we've got good news for you. At long last, you can finally edit your post after it's been published, a feature that was previously only reserved for the comments. As you can see in the screenshot above, simply click on the downward arrow on the top right to reveal the Edit Post option. So far we're able to edit our Facebook posts on the web, and we hear that an update with the editing feature should arrive for the Android app today and the iOS one some time soon. The Android version also adds emoticons to status updates, a view of upcoming events on Pages and the ability to create and share photo albums on the phone. Don't think you can get away scot-free with the Edit option though, as an "Edited" link underneath will open a pop-up window of the edit history, so you still might want to be careful with what you post.


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HP fortifies VirtualSystem arsenal
'vBlock killers' add Hyper-V, HP-UX
HP is expanding its line of preconfigured, virtualization-ready VirtualSystem machines and offering financing and design and implementation services for the more fully fluffed up CloudSystems – which are VirtualSystems gussied up with cloudy management software and self-service portals.
The VirtualSystems take some of the concepts of the BladeSystem Matrix automated blade machines that were launched nearly three years – coincidentally, on the day that Oracle announced it was buying Sun Microsystems – and apply them to both rack and blade servers.
The VirtualSystems, which include servers, storage, and networking all pre-integrated at the HP factory, are backed off a notch from the CloudSystems, which include Cloud Service Automation Suite, which has some control freakery licensed from Adaptive Computing as well as the management and self-service goodies HP originally created for the BladeSystem Matrix boxes. The CloudSystems also use HP's 3PAR disk arrays by default, while some of the smaller VirtualSystems use HP's Lefthand Networks arrays instead. The VirtualSystem configurations come from HP all ready to support a set number of virtual machines on a particular hypervisor.
Back in August, HP launched two VirtualSystem machines tuned up for VMware's new ESXi 5.0 hypervisor and wrap-around vSphere 5.0 add-ons that activate features in that hypervisor. This 5.0 server virtualization stack was announced back in July.
The ESXi variants of the VirtualSystems came in three sizes – VS1, VS2, and VS3 – and supported 750, 2,500, and 6,000 VMs when fully configured, respectively. (We provided all the feeds and speeds of these three ESXi-based VirtualSystems in our original coverage).
This time around, HP is rolling out VirtualSystems tuned for Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 hypervisor – and is letting customers sneak an ESXi hypervisor onto the machines if they really need to.
For now, there are only two VirtualSystem configurations for Hyper-V setups, and they're again called the VS1 and VS2 – technically, the machines are called VirtualSystem for Microsoft, so you can keep them straight from the VirtualSystem for VMware.
The VirtualSystem VS1 setup for Hyper-V includes two ProLiant DL360 G7s, each with two Xeon X5690 six-core processors running at 3.47GHz. They come equipped with 96GB of memory, two 146GB disks, and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. This base VS1 setup also comes with 14.4TB of iSCSI SAN storage implemented in HP's Lefthand P4500 arrays and a 48 port 10GE switch. If you scale this up to eight servers and four P4500 arrays, you can hit that 750 VM limit. You're talking about 185 VMs or so on this initial machine, which costs $175,000.
The VirtualSystem for Microsoft VS2 configuration seems to be a little light on the main memory compared to the VMware systems announced in August, but are similarly based on HP's BladeSystem blade servers instead of ProLiant rack servers. The base configuration comes with one BladeSystem c6000 enclosure and four BL460c G7 two-socket servers using the Xeon six-core X5667 processor running at 3.06GHz.
Each blade has 48GB of main memory, two 146GB disks, and two VirtualConnect Flex10 networking modules in the c7000 blade enclosure. There are also two SASA switches to link out to the Lefthand P4800 array that has 42TB of capacity. Those Flex10 switches provide 48 Gigabit and 48 10GE ports; two of the 10GE ports per blade are used to link the blades to the P4800 arrays.
This initial VS2 configuration will not support the full 2,500 VMs, of course. It takes around 28 blades to do that. This initial setup, which costs $425,000, will support around 535 VMs, if you do the math. Well, it'll support them even if you don't do the math, but you get my meaning.
'vBlock killers'
"These systems are vBlock killers," says Jeff Carlat, director of marketing for the Industry Standard Servers division at HP, referring to the virtual server infrastructure stacks put together on the Unified Computing System blade servers from Cisco Systems, with VMware hypervisors and EMC storage.
Carlat claims that the VirtualSystem for Microsoft machines cost one half what the vBlocks cost, VM for VM. The vBlock machines debuted in November 2009 and came in three sizes: vBlock 0, vBlock 1, and vBlock 2.
The vBlock 0 setups scaled from 300 to 800 VMs and cost on the order of several hundred thousand dollars, while the vBlock 1 setup scaled from 800 to 3,000 VMs with prices ranging from $1m to $2.8m. The vBlock 2 setup scales from 3,000 to 6,000 VMs, and the VCE alliance that sells the vBlock machines did not divulge pricing on this machine.
Neither HP nor VCE allow you to configure their respective VirtualSystem or vBlock machines online, so it is not possible to verify Carlat's claims on HP's pricing being better for VM support.
In 2012, HP will roll out a VirtualSystem for Microsoft VS3 configuration that will scale up to 6,000 VMs, matching the top-end vBlock iron.
All of the Hyper-V variants of the Virtual System come preconfigured with HP's Insight Control for Microsoft's System Center, which allows admins working within the Windows environment to see all of the alerts coming in from the HP iron, as well as supporting patching and provisioning from within the Systems Center console.
HP-UX and nPars and vPars get to play now, too
These Microsoft machines are not the only VirtualSystems that HP punted on Tuesday. There is now a version of the VirtualSystem based on the Superdome 2 extended blade servers, which were announced in April 2010 with eight-socket and 16-socket configurations, and which were extended with a 32-socket box in August of this year.
The Superdome 2 machines are based on Intel's quad-core "Tukwila" Itanium 9300 and run HP's HP-UX Unix variant; prior Superdome machines supported Linux and Windows as well, but the latest ones do not.
HP did not announce a VirtualSystem based on the low-end, two-socket Integrity BL860c i2 blade servers, of which you can put one, two, or four in a single system image to run HP's HP-UX, OpenVMS, and NonStop operating systems. But it seems likely that HP eventually will put out a smaller VirtualSystem for HP-UX customers.
In the meantime, the high-end HP-UX shops are getting the first preconfigured virtual Superdomes. The starting configuration is a 16-socket Superdome 2 SD2-16s machine configured with 1.73GHz Itanium 9350 chips. Main memory on this box scales from 32GB up to 2TB, and it offers 24 internal PCI-Express 2.0 x8 peripheral slots.
This VirtualSystem for Superdome 2 machine is configured with HP-UX 11i v3 and uses the Virtual Server Edition-Operating Environment variant of HP-UX, which is explicitly designed for virtualized server instances. (Other HP-UX variants do not include virtualization, offer extended clustering support, or roll everything into one giant package.) The VSE variant of HP-UX offers nPar hardware partitions, which isolate at the blade level, as well as vPars, which offer containers inside the HP-UX environment.
This Superdome VirtualSystem has four nPars spanning its eight blade servers: a database nPar spanning four blades with 128GB per blade; an application nPar with two blades and 128GB per blade; a test nPar with one blade configured with 96GB, and a development nPar with one blade with 96GB. The application nPar has four vPars to create virtual app servers. The whole shebang is fed by a 3PAR F400 clustered storage array and includes three years' worth of HP critical care tech support.
Carlat says that it will be available in November or December. Pricing has not been set yet.
In addition to rolling out the new VirtualSystems, HP's Technical Services unit – which is now tucked up inside of its Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking group where it belongs – is trotting out services to help companies design new data centers or retrofit old ones to take advantage of dense-pack VirtualSystem and CloudSystem hardware. The engagement typically takes six to eight weeks and involves one or two consultants; pricing is not available.
HP says that in the engagements it has had to date, it can get a data center built or retrofitted about 40 per cent faster than was possible before it acquired this expertise, and it lowers facilities costs by about the same amount.
Finally, HP is reminding everyone that the $2bn in financing it made available in June can be applied to CloudSystem virty hardware stacks. HP says that a CloudSystem configuration with eight ProLiant server blades, an EVA array with 5.4TB of storage, and the Matrix Operating Environment costs around $340,000 but can be financed for as low as $9,500 per month. And if you are a service provider, HP is willing to scale the payments so you pay less on the front-end and more on the back-end of the deal so you don't take the hit upfront as you add customers to a machine and eventually use its capacity. ®


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WASHINGTON -- The battle lines are shaping up again now that President Obama has renewed his call to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
The plan -- referenced early in Obama's State of the Union Address Tuesday -- has been suggested by the president before, and backed by liberal lawmakers and left-leaning healthcare lobbying groups. However, it's opposed by the powerful pharmaceutical lobby.
Both sides again staked their claim this week after Obama pitched the plan Tuesday night.
The Medicare drug benefit, known as Part D, is delivered by private insurers through free-standing drug plans. Those plans negotiate their prices with the drugmakers. The prices are higher than what is paid by Medicaid, whose prices are more restricted by law.
Essentially, Obama's proposal would reduce the money paid to drug companies for the prescriptions of low-income seniors who are covered by both Medicare and Medicaid -- beneficiaries known as "dual eligibles." Those patients' drug benefits are covered by Medicare Part D -- whose reimbursements are more generous -- rather than by the lower-paying Medicaid.
Before Part D was created under the George W. Bush administration, dual eligibles received their drugs through Medicaid.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade group of the brand-name drug industry, not surprisingly spoke against Obama's plan. It said Part D spending is now 45% below the projections made when the program was created.
"The president's proposal to tamper with a program that works well would not yield any benefit for seniors," PhRMA senior vice president Matthew Bennett said in a statement. "Instead, analysts have projected that the president's scheme would harm Part D's competitive dynamics, yielding higher premiums, more restrictive access to medicines, and diminished research on the next generation of medicines."
Any money the government would save from such a change is money that would otherwise have gone to the pharmaceutical industry. But estimates on how much money Medicare can save through the change differ greatly.
Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with the drugmakers would save the federal government between $230 billion and $541 billion in the next decade, left-leaning advocacy group Health Care for America Now said in a study, "Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit."
"Additionally, state governments could save from $31 billion to $72 billion, and consumers could save from $48 billion to $112 billion over the same period," the group said Thursday.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimated the savings for the group, who says other wealthy countries negotiate their drug prices directly with drug companies.
Nearly 300 organizations nationwide support Obama's proposal, Health Care for America Now said.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) introduced a bill last month to act on the president's plan. The Minnesota Democrat says his Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act would save Medicare up to $24 billion annually.
"This is a commonsense measure that will cut spending without cutting any vital services that Minnesotans depend on," he said in a statement.
Obama said Tuesday night his proposal -- along with having wealthier seniors pay more in Medicare premiums -- would generate savings by 2020 equal to those offered by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. According to the most recent commission report, released in 2011, the healthcare savings proposed by the commission amount to $400 billion over a 10-year period from 2012-2021.
The president also included the prescription drug plan change in his proposal to the congressional "Super Committee" in 2011. The committee -- which was assigned to come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts from government spending -- ultimately did not reach an agreement on how to save that money.


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My chainsaw stopped working and I've got a tree that fell and needs cut up. Does anybody have any idea what I can do to get my chainsaw started? I've done a bit of stuff on cars so I'm willing to try to take it all apart, though part of me is tempted to just drop $200 for a new one. Still, an afternoon tinkering isn't going to cost me much. Here is what I tried:
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- Clean Magneto of Rust, ensure it holds a screwdriver up.
- Clean carburetor and fuel lines, especially if it may contain old fuel.
It's a husqavarna about 5 years old. I ran it hard 3 years ago when I had another tree topple but it made it through, though I may have vapor locked it once. It's also not been running since I failed to start it last year and it's been sitting there. With the spring I need to get on it before the weeds come.


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Andrei Goga and colleagues now show that triple-negative breast tumors express elevated levels of the growth-driving protein called MYC. MYC activity was required for the growth of these aggressive tumors, and blocking a MYC-cooperating protein, CDK, caused triple-negative tumors to shrink in mice. Together, these results identify a potential new target for triple-negative tumor treatment.


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Germany are planning to bide their time and eventually wear down defensive-minded Greece when they meet in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Friday.
The Germans advanced through Group B with three wins from three games but are bracing for a much tougher defense than what they faced against Portugal, Netherlands and Denmark.
Greece conceded only five goals in 10 qualifiers, though they also let in three goals in three Group A games, advancing as runners-up behind the Czech Republic.
"We got a small taste of what we can expect when we faced the Danes," said Germany holding midfielder Sami Khedira of their 2-1 victory on Sunday.
"Greece are a very compact team, tactically very strong, well organized and aggressive. They are also fast on the breaks and if you see that they had three or four chances in the tournament so far and scored three goals you can tell they are masters of efficiency.
"So patience will be necessary from our side. We have to move because if we remain static it will be very difficult against them. We have to wear them out, tire them out and keep moving."
Germany have yet to find the form that took them to third place in the World Cup two years ago but they have shown they have matured into a team who may lack spark but can be equally effective when it comes to winning games.
"We are calmer now, more clever and we keep our composure for longer," said Khedira when asked to compare this team with that of two years ago. "We are more concentrated over 90 minutes," he said.
The Germans, who will have defender Jerome Boateng back after missing the last game through suspension, will meet either England or Italy in the last four should they advance against the seemingly weaker Greeks.
Asked whether he was happy to have avoided a potential match-up with world and European champions Spain in the semi-finals if they beat Greece, Khedira refused to speculate.
"Our focus is only on Greece because you know surprises happen in football."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a fervent supporter of the team, will be hoping there are none as she attends the game but her presence could trigger the ire of Greek fans, angered by Berlin's backing of an austerity plan for the debt-ridden nation.
Both teams have played down the political connotations of the game and Greece will be looking to cause an upset only on the pitch, even without suspended captain Giorgos Karagounis.
Greece coach Fernando Santos has yet to reveal who will replace the inspirational midfielder but it is likely to be Grigoris Makos, a more defensive player, who will try to break up German attacks early.
"There is an atmosphere of self-sacrifice in this team," said midfielder Kostas Katsouranis. "All 11 players will give it all we have got. We have been successful as a team where each one player plays for the team, and that is what we will do again."
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Stocks rose Monday on hopes a deal is taking shape in Washington to resolve the fiscal cliff.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.8%, while the S&P 500 added 1.2%. The Nasdaq rose 1.3%.
Shares of big banks and housing stocks were among the best performers. Bank of America (BAC) led the Dow. JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Wells Fargo (WFC) all gained. Retailer Home Depot (HD) was the second best gainer on the Dow, while builders Pulte Group (PHM) and DR Horton (DHI) led the S&P 500.
The gains came as investors welcomed signs of movement in the weeks-long stalemate between President Obama and Congress over tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in automatically on Jan. 1, widely known as the fiscal cliff.
House Speaker John Boehner has offered to extend the debt limit for a year in order to reduce the deficit, a source told CNN. Over the weekend, Boehner suggested he was open to including higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans. The White House, which has called for higher tax rates on top earners, said the offer didn't go far enough but described it as "progress."
Boehner's overture "fundamentally transforms" the fiscal cliff debate, said Helen Fessenden, an analyst at political risk research shop Eurasia Group. "It not only means that a series of interlocking trade-offs can be considered in pursuit of a deal but it also signals that the Speaker ultimately believes a deal can be reached."
While investors welcomed the development, most doubt that a deal will be reached until the last possible moment.
"They're going to come up with a solution closer to the end of the year," said Bernard Kavanagh, vice president of portfolio management for St. Louis-based broker Stifel Nicolaus. "It's political suicide if they don't."
Looking beyond the fiscal cliff, Kavanagh said the market is poised for a rally as stocks are trading at attractive valuations relative to earnings expectations. "We're pretty bullish going into next year," he said.
Stocks were also supported by hopes for new stimulus measures in Japan, after an election over the weekend cleared the way for Shinzo Abe to return as prime minister. Abe has promised monetary and fiscal stimulus to rescue the world's third largest economy from recession. The yen rose versus the U.S. dollar, but the greenback fell versus the euro and British pound.
Before the opening bell, the New York Federal Reserve reported manufacturing conditions in the area have worsened in December. The index fell more than expected, to -8.1, from -5.2 in November.
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In company news, Sprint announced it will buy out the rest of Clearwire for $2.2 billion early Monday, after making an offer last week. Clearwire (CLWR) stock fell 14%, while shares of Sprint (S)were flat.
Caribou Coffee Company (CBOU) agreed to be taken over by Joh. A. Benckiser Group, a German holding company that also bought Peet's Coffee & Tea earlier this year. The deal is valued at $340 million, according to a joint statement. Caribou's stock soared 30%.
Apple (AAPL) rose nearly 2% after slipping below $500 in pre-market action. Apple has dropped significantly over the past four months. Citigroup cut its rating on the stock to "neutral" from "buy." Analysts at Cannacord Genuity and Mizuho Securities both lowered their price targets for Apple shares, citing weaker-than-expected sales of iPhones and iPads.
AIG (AIG) said it would sell the remainder of its Asian unit, AIA, in deal that could be worth $6.5 billion for the global insurance company. Shares rose 3%.
Shares of Smith & Wesson (SWHC) fell more than 5% amid speculation the U.S. government will impose stricter gun laws in the wake of a mass shooting in Connecticut. Shares of Sturm, Ruger (RGR) fell as well.
U.S. stocks ended lower Friday as concerns about the fiscal cliff continued to eclipse signs of improvement in the global economy.
Asian markets ended mixed Monday, with Japan's Nikkei index posting the strongest gains as a result of the weekend's elections.
Meanwhile, European markets ended lower. London's FTSE 100 (UKX) fell 0.4%, while the CAC 40 (CAC40) in Paris lost 0.3%. The DAX (DAX) in Germany ended flat.
In other overseas news, India's finance ministry released its projections for gross domestic product in 2012-2013. Overall growth for the year is expected to come in around 5.7% to 5.9%, which would mark the slowest rate of growth in 10 years.
In other markets, oil and gold prices edged higher.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose to 1.75%.
Foreign investors and central banks made $15.8 billion in net purchases of U.S. Treasury notes and bonds in October, according to the government's Treasury International Capital report. That compares with net sales of $17.4 billion in September.


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Jikandia: The Timeless Land
Old-style action RPG headed to PSP in the spring.
Torrance, CA (November 24, 2010) – Aksys Games, a publisher of interactive entertainment products, proudly announced today that the retro-style action RPG Jikandia: The Timeless Land will be released in North America in Spring 2011. Jikandia: The Timeless Land will be available for the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system.
For thousands of years, the people of Jikandia were happy and peaceful, utterly ignorant of the concept of time. Then...one day, uncountable hordes of dangerous creatures appeared, bringing chaos to Jikandia and setting the wheels of time turning once again. Plunged suddenly into this newly-temporal reality, the people of Jikandia fell into confusion, terror, and anarchy.
In the midst of the mayhem gripping the land, an ancient spirit known as Temtem, hoping to restore peace and harmony to the troubled land, somehow gained mastery over time and space. With this new-found power, Temtem attempted to summon the nine heroes of legend. Nine kids on their way to school found themselves summoned through time and space to become the champions of Jikandia. However, only Al, who was separated from his friends while traveling through the void, appeared before Temtem. Neither of them knew what had happened to Al's friends, but it soon become clear that Al had to find them, and right Jikandia's wrongs, if he was ever to return home.
In Jikandia, you must travel through dungeons in search of your friends. You can set the time limit for each dungeon yourself! Dungeons are altered in several ways according to the time limit you set, so no adventure is the same twice! The longer you spend in one, the more likely you'll come across rare items and treasure chests...but you'll also face more monsters and difficult traps. Also, by meeting certain requirements, you can unlock specific events and cause legendary items to appear. Activating the "Awakening" mode will make you stronger, faster, and more powerful! Obtain magic orbs to customize your hero's skills as you wish. Up to four PSP systems can be linked to play in the Jikandia Coliseum timed stages where you can battle against your friends and dodge traps to win with the highest score!
"With a combination of old-school platforming action and a colorful cast of characters, Jikandia: The Timeless Land gives you the freedom to decide how long you want to spend in each dungeon, making the game easy to pick up and play whenever you have a moment to spare," says Frank "Bo" deWindt II, Associate Producer at Aksys Games.
Jikandia: The Timeless Land Key Features
• Set your own time limit
Set a time limit before entering a dungeon. The setting, enemies, and number of treasure chests change according to the time limit, giving the player endless ways to play the game.
• Unlock story events
Play through the game multiple times to unlock additional events. Since the layout and size of each dungeon changes depending on the time set by the player, it's possible for the player to never have to explore the same dungeon twice.
• 4-player Coliseum mode
Up to four players can enjoy Jikandia together using the PSP®'s ad-hoc mode. Challenge other players in a wide variety of settings, creating traps and timed events to determine who will emerge from battle victorious.
About Aksys Games
Located in Torrance, California and founded in 2006, Aksys Games is well known for being a visionary within the fighting game sector while expanding into other genres such as RPGs, fishing, and family-style games. Some of their more popular games include the Guilty Gear, Record of Agarest War, Hooked: Real Motion Fishing, and the BIT.TRIP series.
Jikandia: The Timeless Land has not been rated by the ESRB. More information about Aksys Games and Jikandia: The Timeless Land can be found at www.aksysgames.com.
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